Russia-Ukraine updates: Russia targets Donbas in 'new phase of war'; migrants in Lviv apartment block share their stories; plus, the latest images of war.
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia ratcheted up its battle for control of Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland on Tuesday, intensifying assaults on cities and towns along a front hundreds of miles long in what officials on both sides described as a new phase of the war.
If successful, that offensive would give President Vladimir Putin a vital piece of Ukraine and a badly needed victory in the now 7-week-old war that he could present to the Russian people amid mounting casualties and economic hardship caused by the West's sanctions. Ukraine's military said early Tuesday that a"new phase of war" began a day earlier when"the occupiers made an attempt to break through our defenses along nearly the entire frontline." Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that"another phase of this operation is starting now."
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